If you aren’t inviting your enemies for tea, you are inviting your own misery instead. Growing up, I had very clear boundaries drawn around me. I surrounded myself with like-minded people, and had a straight path prepared for me, to guide me through life. It was simple. It was clean…

I’ve lost count how many times I’ve written that in the last month. With an almost 7% global unemployment rate today, it should come as no surprise that more than a few of us are out there pouring hearts, souls, and countless hours into polishing up our resumes, cover letters…

As a UX designer, I am often asking for the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of others. This creates stronger designs by helping us (designers) meet people where they already are. When faced with a plethora of options or information, a great way to begin to organize all of it is…

Don’t you just love it when life comes at you with an unexpected pleasant surprise? This was my experience recently when meeting up with some roller skaters while doing research for a local roller skate shop. Let me explain. I am not a skater. Though I rollerbladed a bit as…

Icons are used everywhere today as visual cues for our interactions both digitally and in our physical environments. We may have become so accustomed to some of them, in fact, that we don’t even consciously recognize that they are there. Instead, we’ve programmed our brains to respond and interact based…

It’s incredible the things we learn as adults that we’ve really known about since we were kids, but somehow, somewhere along the line we forgot. This week in class as we study information architecture (IA), I was taken back to my grade school days when learning about the usability, accessibility…

Reality is becoming less and less of a presence in our everyday, and has been for some time. We have become accustomed to pixel-perfect, filtered, and augmented images of our expectations that have strayed far from their humble beginnings. What we see, hear, and experience are almost always the result…

Every day we are surrounded by the promise of life-improvers, time-savers, quick-fixes, and innovations you just can’t live without. But what makes a great product? What is the line that separates a good product from a great one? This is what we are here today to explore. Good product design…